There are over 300 institutions where people are incarcerated in California. These include over 150 local jails, more than 30 California State prisons, more than 50 juvenile facilities, a dozen or so Federal prisons, quite a few mental health departments in hospitals and several Homeland Security detention centers.
Our ministry is willing and able to support receptive inmates and incarcerated patients in all of these institutions either directly through our visiting chaplains or by letters from our corresponding chaplains. If you are aware of an incarcerated individual who you think would like to be connected to one of our chaplains, please click here [ ] to inform us about this individual.
Listed below are institutions currently or recently served by our visiting chaplains. Please understand that this list changes over time as chaplains change and circumstances change. If you have a question about whether a specific institution is currently being served, contact us by clicking the button below.
- Alameda County Juvenile Hall
- Contra Costa County Juvenile Hall
- VA Hospital, Palo Alto and Menlo Park;
- Elmwood Mens Facility, Milpitas
- San Quentin State Prison
- Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility, Banning
- Youth Services Ctr, San Mateo County
- Maguire Correctional Facility
- Marin County Jail
- Santa Barbara Jail;
- Federal Correctional Facility, Lompoc
- MCC San Diego
- Kern Dalano
- WASCO
- Main Adult Detention Facility, Sonoma County Jail (MADF)
- CA Medical Facility/State Prison-Vacaville (CMF)
- SF County Jail #5 (San Bruno)
- Terminal Island FCI
- Glen Helen Detention
- Robert Presley Detention Ctr
- San Bernardino Central, Rancho Cucamonga
- Central CA Women’s Facility, Chowchilla
- Valley State Prison, Chowchilla
- Iris Garrett Juv. Complex, Merced
- Pleasant Valley State Prison, Coalinga
- Elmwood Co. Jail, San Mateo jails
- CMH
- VA Home of CA
- VA Health Care System, San Diego
- Shasta Co. Juvenile Hall
- Folsom Prison (Women’s)
- Theo Lacy, Orange County
- CA Institution for Women
- Women’s Correctional Center, San Mateo County
- Butte Co. Jail, Oroville
- California Correctional Center, near Susanville
- High Desert State Prison; Federal Correctional Center in Herlong
- Lassen County Jail, Susanville
- El Dorado Jail, South Lake Tahoe
- Lancaster State Prison